Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

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Currently reading: It’s been even slower with Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min. I’ve been having lunch with a friend a lot the past few weeks since it’s nice out. We can’t do this as much come winter so we’re enjoying the sun and I’m reading less. Oh well.
My husband and I haven’t moved forward with Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. We have a drive coming up this weekend (more on that tomorrow) so we’ll get a bit more in then. This one might be a long time running.
I was finally able to start The Map of Time by Félix Palma! It’s been really interesting so far, though I’m not far into it. The narration style is reminding me a bit of Marcus Zusak. We’ll see if that continues.
I’ve already made great progress with A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab due to some longer training sessions last week. I’m optimistic that I’ll finish this in two weeks, but we’ll see. Optimism!
I start Burial Rites by Hannah Kent in my car. Not too far into it yet, so no real opinion. I added this to my TBR when I planned my trip to Iceland but I’m a year late on reading it. Oh well, better late than never!

Recently finished: Finally, there is so much to report! I wrapped up The Golden Rules by Bob Bowman which was a great one to listen to while training for a Half Ironman. It was really inspiring to push toward your goals. It helps that I’m an avid swimmer and swim fan and this focused on Bowman’s most famous athlete, Michael Phelps. My review went up last Thursday and I gave it Three out of Five Stars.
I was glad to finish A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers late last week. It was dragging on more than I wanted and I was eager to start something new. My review went up yesterday so you can check that out. I gave it Two out of Five Stars.
I finally finished A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin! 39 disks and over 47 hours completed. It feels amazing to be done. I’ll have a review up next week I expect. I hope I can remember it all.

Reading Next: I’ve got one more book club pick coming up soon that I need to start so I’ll be listening to Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage next. I’ve read Jones before and liked her and this one has had a lot of good press so I’m looking forward to it.

Leave a comment with your link and comment (if you’re so inclined). Take a look at the other participant links in the comments and look at what others are reading.

Would you recommend V.E. Schwabs The Darker Shade of Magic? I’m thinking of reading it. I got a card deck from Owlcrate of A Gathering of Shadows and it made me want to read the series. It seems super hyped.

I liked the first one, A Darker Shade of Magic. I’m sad it took me a while to start the second one, A Gathering of Shadows. I’m liking this one a lot so far as well. I hope to get to the third one in short order. Happy reading!

Well done on finishing A Storm of Swords! I’m hoping that investment of time has been worth it. I’ve been meaning to read Burial Rites ever since I read her book The Good People which I really enjoyed.

I did say a couple of weeks ago that you would be finishing loads of stuff in one go! 🙂 I am intrigued by Burial Rites – that one sounds really interesting! I don’t think I have ever read anything set in Iceland.

When I pick out an audiobook I always look at how long it will be because I know that more than 9 hours and I start to feel….disinterested. I am SO impressed that you managed to listen to 47 hours of the same book! Wow!

You finished a lot this week! I am trying to go back and finish all the books I started and never finished. I don’t know how you keep track when you are reading that many at a time lol. I think An American Marriage is a good book club book. I think there will be a lot of varied opinions based on my own discussions on it. Here’s my WWW: https://greatmorrisonmigration.wordpress.com/2019/07/24/www-wednesdays-july-24-2019/

I’ve read The Storm of Swords a long time ago and only set my Goodreads goal at 50 this year because I wanted to re-read the 5 books in the series, but now I think I’ll put it off a couple of years, maybe after Martin announces a release date on book 6, The Winds of Winter.

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